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04 July 2019 "I am a miracle. And I wonder why I was alive". Thus Thiago Takeuti, the 35-year-old Brazilian tourist who survived the eruption of yesterday in Stromboli where his excursion companion and his contemporary, Massimo Imbesi, died."After the eruption - he reconstructs - we sought shelter in an area where the fire had already passed and we thought he would not come back. But running between the stones and the lapilli we fell to the ground. He breathed more and more frantically. I tried to revive him but there was no it was nothing more to do ".
The flames resume, the Canadair return
Two canadaires flew back to Stromboli to extinguish the still-alive brushwood and vegetation outbreaks. At first they moved away, they returned to action after a resumption of the flames fed by the mistral. Two Canadairs are in contemporary action to extinguish the outbreaks still active in the Petrazze and Forgia Vecchia areas. The coordinated interventions of the aerial vehicles are visible from Via Marina to Stromboli where tourists stop to immortalize the scene with smartphones. And a fire brigade helicopter was again raised to perform a reconnaissance on the top of the crater and on the Sciara del fuoco that produces smoke, dust and lapilli that fall to the sea, from the side of Ginostra.
Ban on access to the volcano
The mayor of Lipari, Marco Giorgianni, issued a temporary ban on access to the Stromboli volcano as a precaution. The ban, which concerns both sides, starts at an altitude of 400 meters. As a "further measure to guarantee the tranquility of those who are in Stromboli and Ginostra", the mayor also ordered a ship to be at anchor for the day today, as happened last night.
Assumption of raising alert to yellow
The raising of the alert level to 'yellow' is, at the moment, a hypothesis at the table of civil protection experts, but has not yet been declared. The sources of the Ingv specify it.
De Astis (Ingv): evolving situation, we do not exclude anything
"The situation is evolving, the sequence of events has been different than usual and we cannot say in which direction it is evolving. There is always the conspicuous risk, with such a high magma in the conduit as it is now, that a fracture opens up along the Sciara with the danger of collapse of material in the water and, consequently, an anomalous wave ".
This is explained by Gianfilippo De Astis of the Rome Ingv, arriving in Ginostra, the fraction most affected by yesterday's eruption at Stromboli. "At this moment there is no sign that we are going in this direction - he adds - but we cannot exclude that in the next few hours something will change. It seems that the magmatic system has a lot of magma in the top part". The situation at the moment, according to De Angelis, "shows normal parameters".
And as for the explosiveness "for what I saw from Sciara del fuoco there is a modest explosive activity and low intensity with the launching of shreds of lava. Instead there is a more consistent diet on the south west west flank , near Ginostra ", he concludes.